I am new to Home Assistant, and am trying to configure a button on my RadioRa 2 seeTouch keypad to control my Hunter-Douglas shades. I have both integrations setup and configured with HA, and individually they seem to work fine.
I’ve created automations to open and close the shades, but they are not getting triggered as expected. I’m sure this is user error, but I haven’t found anything in the forums/docs to help me figure out what I’m doing wrong.
In short, my automation trigger is a Device trigger, set to the Keypad as the device, with the triggers being “Master Bedroom Shades turned on” and “Master Bedroom Shades turned off” (one for each automation to open/close).
“Shades” is the button label on the keypad that I’ve designated for this. It is not assigned any lighting loads/scenes in the Lutron software. When I enable debugging on the integration, after pressing the button twice, I see this in the debug logs:
2025-02-11 17:02:15.643 DEBUG (Thread-2) [pylutron] Updating 70(Master Bedroom): c=3 a=3 params=[]
2025-02-11 17:02:15.644 DEBUG (Thread-2) [pylutron] Keypad: "Master Bedroom" Button name: "Shades" num: 3 type: "SingleAction" direction: "None" Action: 3 Params: []"
2025-02-11 17:02:16.403 DEBUG (Thread-2) [pylutron] Updating 70(Master Bedroom): c=3 a=4 params=[]
2025-02-11 17:02:16.403 DEBUG (Thread-2) [pylutron] Keypad: "Master Bedroom" Button name: "Shades" num: 3 type: "SingleAction" direction: "None" Action: 4 Params: []"
When I go to the Master Bedroom device under the Lutron integration, I see the following in the box to the right:
Master Bedroom Shades detected an event
For other buttons on the keypad, the logbook on the device page will say the button turned on or turned off.
Is this because I haven’t assigned a lighting load to the button? Is the Lutron repeater just immediately turning it off after I turn it on, and as a result HA isn’t detecting the discrete on and off events?
Is there another trigger I should be using to capture when this button is pressed to perform this automation? I see reference to triggering on lutron_event in the docs, however I am using the GUI and not sure how to select that trigger – can this only be done via YAML? Appreciate any guidance you can provide!